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Oxford Dictionaries offers a wide range of language resources for people all over the world. Whether you are a student, a professional, a language explorer, a learner, or simply in love with language, there is a product to suit you:

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Oxford Dictionaries is home to the world-famous Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the definitive guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 280,000 entries – past and present – from across the English-speaking world.

bab.la

Also part of Oxford University Press, our sister site bab.la provides free access to translation dictionaries in 28 languages, along with quizzes, games, and vocabulary lessons. In addition, bab.la offers practical advice aimed at people using other languages at work or when living abroad. Visit bab.la to explore online dictionaries and resources in these languages:

Arabic

German

Polish

Chinese

Greek

Portuguese

Czech

Hindi

Romanian

Danish

Hungarian

Russian

Dutch

Italian

Swahili

Esperanto

Japanese

Swedish

Finnish

Korea

Turkish

French

Norwegian

Other bab.la languages

Institutional access

We offer ad-free dictionary resources for libraries and other institutions in these languages: